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WRAGG & CASAS PUBLIC RELATIONS PROMOTES THREE TO SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM
MIAMI - February 7, 2005 - Three long-time staff members at Wragg & Casas Public Relations have been promoted to the firm’s Senior Management Team. They are Jeanmarie Ferrara, named Vice President of Public Affairs, Christina Denis, named Vice President of Client Services, and Charles Jones, promoted to Director of Client Services.
Jeanmarie Ferrara, a member of the Florida Bar who joined the firm after several years as a litigation attorney in Miami, works with a variety of clients who have specialized interests in government relations and public affairs. Ferrara joined the firm in 1996 and coordinated public relations and public affairs strategies, event planning, media relations and legislative monitoring. She earned a law degree from The University of Miami School of Law and earned a bachelor’s degree from The University of Miami School of Communication.
Ferrara is a graduate of Leadership Florida, an executive committee member of Leadership Miami and a literacy volunteer with the Miami-Dade County’s L.E.A.D. (Literacy for Every Adult in Dade) program.
Christina Denis has a broad background in strategic public relations planning and marketing. She develops and implements integrated communications programs for consumer and corporate clients. She supervises crisis and issues management, reputation management and litigation support.
Prior to joining Wragg & Casas, Denis was vice president of Citigate Dewe Rogerson, a worldwide public relations and marketing firm. She was director of public affairs in Miami, where she managed government relations, issues management, community relations and media relations. Denis also worked for a number of years for international management consulting firms in Washington, D.C.
Denis holds a Master of Public Management degree from the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She serves on the board of directors of the Public Relations Society of America Miami Chapter, co-chairs the media roundtable committee and serves on the 2005 International Conference host committee. Denis is a graduate of the Leadership Miami program.
Veteran television news reporter Charles Jones, named the “2004 Up & Comer in Public Relations” by The South Florida Business Journal, focuses on media relations, media/presentation training, crisis communications, reputation management and marketing/publicity for professional services firms. The National Conference of Black Mayors regularly invites Jones to lead media training sessions at the organization’s annual leadership institute.
Jones earned a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from The University of South Carolina where he was named the 2003-2004 Black Alumnus of the Year. Miami Today newspaper recently recognized Jones’s commitment to community service with a 2004 Gold Medal Award.
With offices in Miami, Orlando and Southwest Florida, Wragg & Casas is a full-service public relations firm that counsels clients in media relations, issues management, business-to-business marketing communications, crisis communications, corporate and financial relations. The firm is also an equity partner of Pinnacle Worldwide, a global coalition of independent public relations companies in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia.